Midweek Madness - Why you shouldn't celebrate before scoring

First.....get in there!!!!!!!

Awesome, isn't there also one where Will Carling butchered a try by trying to be a bit too smart and got carried over the dead ball line.

I once tried to beat a player while already in the goal area and acidentally stepped out of play. Coach was not impressed...i was only 15 though

hahaha brilliant, yeh something like that happened to me once, I was 17 playing on the wing, got the ball in the middle of the pitch, sidestepped two guys and sprinted to the tryline, kinda stopped for a second, was about to put the ball down and got shoulder barged into touch!
Luckily we won 42-0 though :)

Nick, spot on, thanks for reminding me. I've added it to the related posts

hahaha what a tool !!! thats one of my "worst nightmares", obviously you should never celebrate prematurely. haha

hahaa. i've done something similar where, on a wet and windy sunday morning, i put the ball down over the 5 meter line and walked off celebrating. i don't remember if we won, my team thought it was completely hilarious.

Rugby union hits are so much better than league, this tackle was pathetic he barely touches the guy. This is why league is shit and union isnt

Thanks, Troll. You nailed it

Troll is trolling league fans on a rugby union site.
Genius.

this going directly to try savers clips!

I play rugby in America, and normally kids won't start playing until highschool. Because of the influence of American Football, I've had the pleasure of, on two occasions, tackling someone who simply ran into the try zone and stood there. It was extremely satisfying!

our backs did a great play just outside the 5 and our 13 burst through and was going so fast he went over the deadball line.

There's another one I remember, Juan Leguizamon of London Irish losing the ball in a swallow dive. Not sure if you have that vid...

Not quite in the same genre, but from my playing days, I had a guy dive over the 22 metre line and celebrate. Wish Youtube had been around then.

Unlucky just shows you never get to cocky, but it's a good example for players from both codes to never give up on a seemingly lost cause! The leguizamon one was the best well the best worst one :P it's being used in the advert for sky sports at the min. I remember playing at school and the other team's winger got over confident running close to the dead ball to get under the posts and our backrow caught him and to my knowledge there's still a massive dent in the big metal fence just behind the dead ball after 7years or so lol

There's one a few years back too in the Heineken Cup where Christophe Dominici spills the ball over the line I think.

I just cant stop laughing, this is hilarious but my favourite is this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyh_LXRk8g

Glad you got the Leguizamon cock-up, and gee that one takes some beating.

i remember this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfWCXg4rz4

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Not so much a fail but could well have been: Serevi playing in sevens start's celebrating a little early.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQmYssQWdA

@ filipe:

Haven't seen that particular clip in a while, but it's hilarious!


There's one from the irb sevens circuit where a player (english one, I believe) is kissing the ball before scoring a try, a guy comes from behind and just as the pom is putting it down, he kicks the ball out of his hands. Best clip ever, and the only possible response to that is: MUPPET!!!


Cheers, RD

the Dominici one is classic alright: for france, trying to simply place the ball coolly onto the ground with the risky one hand instead of the safer two..and spills it.

and that is why you should dive and slide...

this year, during a sevens tournament, a oppposing player broke the line around 40 metres, and ran to the try line, i followed, running a solid pace, catching up with him until the 22, but then was too tired to keep it up, but then he started looking around, and i tackled him from behind, literally under the posts, and he knocked it on in the in goal area.

When I was about 12 I was playing on a field that was end on end with another field. Ran dead thinking the other fields dead ball line was ours, then was nearly sent off for swearing...

I remember playing a Glasgow district match at U-16 and got the ball just short of the 22 and charged over trying to make the try-line with 3 guys hanging off me.

I realised i wasn't going to get to the try-line and so freed my ball carrying arm to offload to one of my team mates, all of whom for some reason were screaming at me to go to ground instead for some reason.

When i offloaded, the guy i passed to then fell immediately to the ground inexplicably.

That was when i looked back and realised that the line i had thought was the 22 was actually the tryline and i was over it and only needed to touch it down. Lucky for me i didn't make what i thought was the tryline (i.e the dead ball line) and the guy i passed to scored anyway.

The most ironic thing was that shortly before that, the oppositions stand-off, who was one of these big cocky guys, dropped the ball over the tryline under the posts as he tried to pick and place it in the one movement.

Two consecutive cock-ups from each team, but luckily mine was a little less costly and we ended up drawing the match 17-17 if i remember correctly! lol!

love it, hopefully things like this will keep football aspects out of the game. LOL

Remember Will Carling getting held up over the line years ago.....

Ha ha ha ha ha DUMBASS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

Too much posing:)

"They won't catch the flying fish.." .. oh yes they will!

I remember getting the ball from our fb with some space when I was about 19 and beating my opposite player on a nice little run... But then I ran through the in goal and over the dead ball line cuz the lines weren't marked well.

I was shattered, the other teams supporters gave it to me bad. lol!!

There was also Deon Keyser smoking an over-confident Robbie Fleck from behind... one of my favourite of all times! NicG

^ um yes, that is written in the description, and linked to above.

lol @ Nicko

"the Dominici one is classic alright: for france, trying to simply place the ball coolly onto the ground with the risky one hand instead of the safer two..and spills it."

He simply hit the ball with his knee. That was so freaking hilarious. Unfortunately it is not on youtube (at least I can find it) but I think it is one of the very worse.

Stupid kiwi.

stupid leaguey..serves him right

Christian Cullen Hurricanes v Waratahs dropping ball over line. RWC 1987 Fiji v France, ball spurts out from arms over touhcline on way to what would have been winning try.

Haha! I once tried to score but dived over the 5 meter line thinking it was the try line with no one in front of me. The other team jumped on me and formed a ruck. Shame! It was a final too.

we islanders should stop this shit, coz it's getting embarrassing. This is the 2nd or 3rd vid of 1 of our boys getting shamed celebrating early.